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Klappentext An in-depth look at the Russian presidency as a case study of institution building within the context of a mixed presidential-parliamentary regime. Zusammenfassung An in-depth look at the Russian presidency as a case study of institution building within the context of a mixed presidential-parliamentary regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments About the Author Chapter 1: Executive Power in Russian Politics What Does Executive Leadership Mean in the Russian Context? Authoritarian Modernizers: The Prototype Characteristics of Authoritarian Modernizers What Can We Learn from Past "Executives"? Earlier Authoritarian Modernizers The Brezhnev Era: The Long Calm before the Storm The Uncertain Interregnum: Andropov and Chernenko Chapter 2: The Gorbachev Presidency The Starting Point: What Gorbachev Intended Gorbachev's Rise to Power From General Secretary to President The Reform Agenda: Politics and Policy Glasnost The Economy: Perestroika Judicial Reform Foreign Policy Political Reform: Democratization Democratization of the Communist Party The Gorbachev Presidency The Presidency of the Russian Federation The Battle of the Presidents Gorbachev as an Authoritarian Modernizer Chapter 3: The Yeltsin Presidency, 1991-1993 Yeltsin's Path to Moscow From Outcast to President The President Becomes a President A Real President Gets a Real Nation Personal Rivalries Economic Reforms as a Political Issue Yeltsin's Economic Reforms: Phase I (1991-1993) The Reform of the Party-State National Identity and the Union Treaty Judicial Reform The President and the Legislature Foreign Policy Yeltsin as an Authoritarian Modernizer: A Preliminary Assessment Chapter 4: Yeltsin and Russia Reborn The Presidency and the Legislature Judicial Reform The 1993 Duma Elections The 1995 Duma Elections The 1996 Presidential Election The Second Term: From Victory to Resignation Yeltsin's Economic Reforms: Phase II (1994-1999) Foreign Policy The First Chechen War The December 1999 Duma Elections Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation Yeltsin as an Authoritarian Modernizer: A Final Assessment Chapter 5: Putin I, 2000-2008 The 2000 Presidential Election Vladimir Putin: From Spy Novels to the Kremlin The Putin Formula The Putin Presidency Emerges from Yeltsin's Shadow Outside the Garden Ring: "Managing" the New Democracy The Presidency and the Legislature: The 2003 Duma Elections Judicial Reform The 2004 Presidential Election The Rules and the Game Change The Run-Up to the 2008 Presidential Election The 2007 Duma Elections Putin's Economic Reforms Foreign Policy The Second Chechen War The 2008 Presidential Election Putin as an Authoritarian Modernizer Chapter 6: The "Tandem" Dmitry Medvedev: Putin's Friend from Leningrad Governing the Nation in Tandem Medvedev and Putin in Tandem Factional Realities Medvedev and Economic Reform Medvedev and Political Modernization Judicial Reform Foreign Policy The Russian-Georgian War Medvedev and the Legislature: The 2011 Duma Elections The Duma Election and Voting Fraud The 2012 Presidential Election Election Results Medvedev as an Authoritarian Modernizer Chapter 7: Putin II, 2012- The "New" Cabinet Putin II: Old and New Realities Maintaining the Balance within the Garden Ring Controlling the Opposition The Economy: Prosperity and Modernity Foreign Policy Crimea and Ukraine Russian Foreign Policy and the World The Three Arenas of Russian Politics Inside the Garden Ring: Factional Politics in Putin II A Note on the Siloviki O...
